I’d be interested in Laura Gibbs’ thoughts on this one.
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Neuroeducation Will Lead to Big Breakthroughs in Learning http://suhub.co/2yLlB7X
Speaking for myself, I could do with more happy scenes in fiction. But just showing people being happy without context isn’t going to make for an interesting story. Light and shade, authenticity, and creating a sense of what’s at stake are key to making happiness work.
When local, small-scale production becomes powerful again, what changes?
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How Technology Is Driving Us Toward Peak Globalization http://suhub.co/2yGQlHa
It is very long — 31 miles, according to Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.
It must be ancient, and may be buried more than 300 feet below the surface. It might even contain ice or water.
If the researchers are correct, it sounds just like what the old Apollo scientists and would-be colonists were looking for.
Not only is there no strong evidence that organically-grown food is better for health, there’s also good evidence that it’s worse, not better, for the environment on a number of measures (though it does depend which measures you choose, and what you’re growing).
I will pay extra for “free-farmed” or “free-range” meat and eggs, for animal welfare and health reasons, but I won’t pay extra for organic.
I’m envisaging a journey by self-sailing ship, passing thousands of turbines far out to sea.
Originally shared by Danie van der Merwe
First floating wind farm, built by offshore oil company, delivers electricity
According to Ars Technica, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm began delivering electricity to the Scottish grid on 18 October 2017.
The 30MW installation, situated 25km (15.5mi) from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, will demonstrate that offshore wind energy can be harvested in deep waters, miles away from land, where installing giant turbines was once impractical or impossible. At peak capacity, the wind farm will produce enough electricity to power 20,000 Scottish homes.
The installation, called Hywind Scotland, is also interesting because it was built by Statoil, a Norwegian mega-corporation known for offshore oil drilling. Statoil has pursued offshore wind projects in recent years, using the company’s experience building and managing infrastructure in difficult open sea conditions to its advantage.
Robots in Japan are a lot friendlier than in the west, so will Japanese-style robot companions translate?
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Better Than Smart Speakers? Japan Is Making Robot and Hologram Companions http://suhub.co/2x6Im2P
Big grats to Steve, who, because he’s British, didn’t finish the first sentence of his post with an exclamation point. But he’s entitled to one.
I haven’t read this particular series, but what I have read of his has been good.
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My forthcoming SF novel KYMIERA has just been optioned by B7Media for TV production.
It’s been a long road for the story because it started as a pilot script over 10 years ago but special effects were way too expensive then. I shifted to writing books and last year I decided to make it into a novel. And now it’s been optioned.
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B7Media.com produce TV, film, and audio. They’ve done a ton of stuff for Big Finish, produced the award-winning Dan Dare audio series and the “I, Robot” radio series for BBC Radio 4.
The assumption that nobody would create anything if there was no way to profit from it has long been disproven in practice, but if profiting from your digital creations is one of your goals, blockchain could help you attain it.
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Blockchain Will Be the Foundation of Trust in the Metaverse http://suhub.co/2xNAp7p
This article makes so many points that are relevant to me.
As someone who’s worked in project teams my whole working life, the idea that collective intelligence is more important than individual intelligence resonates with me strongly. In a typical project team, there’s no one “hero” who can legitimately claim all or most of the credit. What’s more, no one person, no matter how long they worked, could possibly achieve what the team achieved.
Then there’s optimism. The person being interviewed here makes the excellent point that good news is gradual while bad news is sudden, so bad news tends to be what we notice. But with a consistent history of things improving, why are we convinced that they’re going to get worse? (That’s not to say that some things in particular will not get worse, but things in general tend to improve.)
Culture and society provide a kind of “ratchet effect” which mean that, on the whole, we build on what the people who came before us made. That’s why I’m typing this on a computer that’s the size of a large (but not thick) book and sending it out to people all over the world. Once we collectively solve a problem and encapsulate the solution in technology (or culture), we don’t have to solve that problem again; we can use the solution to solve the next problem.
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Collective Intelligence Is the Root of Human Progress http://suhub.co/2ymMZtI